Chapter Twenty-Four: The Ice Road
Although the plan to use the ice road was decided, there are still many debatable points, the plan is always unable to catch up with the changes, and it is necessary to be fully prepared in advance to be invincible, and after some detailed deliberations, the final decision was made.
"Do you think it can be done?" Emerging from the chamber, Unas asked Gordon.
"Whether it's feasible or not, it's better than being in a stalemate before," Gordon's tone seemed not very optimistic, "if it drags on any longer, it will be even more impossible to attack as soon as it gets dark, so you have to try." ”
"It's a good thing we don't have to charge forward this time." At the meeting just now, it was decided that Poorhart's team would lead the attack, and the vanguard would only have to follow in the rear.
"The vanguard lost seven men, suffered heavy losses, and morale was greatly weakened, so we have little chance of being a striker again." Gordon sighed lightly, his tone was indescribably disappointed, but Unas was a little incomprehensible to this war maniac.
The various teams quickly set up camp and rushed to the spot pointed out by Purhardt, and the vanguard set out at the back of all the teams.
The destination was not far, half an hour's walk south along the shore of the lake to the predetermined place, the distance of five hundred meters was indeed very close, and the cavalry could land on the island with a single charge, provided that there was a thick and flat road under their feet.
The surface of the lake is very uncalm, and the irregular ripples are swinging around, as if countless large fish are scurrying in the lake, needless to say that they are certainly not fish, and the undead under the water have also moved here with the human army, ready to devour the humans who dare to cross the water.
Choosing a fairly flat beachhead, Angela, Duane and their assistants had already set up their positions, and Duane drew a complex circle on the ground, Angela stood in the center of the circle, and all the mages chanted pleasant incantations in low voices.
The mages were surrounded by iron barrels, and the casting process was not to be disturbed, and Tairosus himself stood at the forefront to guard against a possible attack.
After a quarter of an hour, a cold air suddenly burst out from the magic circle, and the huge gem on the staff in Angela's hand emitted a strong purple light, and the soldiers who formed an iron bucket formation around them couldn't help but shiver.
A layer of hoarfrost instantly covered a large area of water, and the sound of "rattling" came from the surface of the lake, and the lake began to freeze in large chunks, but this was only a shallow layer of ice floe, and it was useless.
Angela's chanting of the incantation suddenly grew louder, and as the last note was completed, a pale blue mist erupted from the staff in her hand.
The swirling blue column shot into the lake like a drill, and then quickly spread forward.
With a loud click, a piece of ice that was ten meters wide and nearly one meter above the water level rose from the water, and Angela continued to inject blue gas, and the ice surface quickly extended forward.
This layer of ice is no longer an ice floe, but completely frozen through the bottom of the lake, like a dam, separating the water from both sides, and everyone can see that the mages are not building an ice pontoon, but a strong ice bank!
At this time, the sky was dark, and I don't know who shouted: "Enemy attack!" ”
Unas looked up, a pitch-black vortex suddenly appeared in the sky, and a house-sized meteorite burning with green flames shot out of it, and the meteorite continued to split into small green fire fragments, forming a green fire rain covering the entire army in the air, and looking at the direction of the meteorite's fall, it went straight towards the magic circle.
At the same time, the surface of the lake on the shore began to churn violently, and the undead were about to attack from the water, and the insect swarm on the island in the middle of the lake was also clamoring under a few screaming commands.
The Dreadlord Bethryth finally couldn't hold back and launched a general attack to stop the spell from being completed, so he did not hesitate to use his ultimate ability, summoning hellfire.
Silver Dawn had already prepared for this, and the large and small Holy Light Enchantments were quickly propped up, and almost every officer above the knight level was issued obsidian carved into the Holy Light Array, and their respective areas were divided in advance enough for the entire regiment of soldiers to be protected under the enchantment.
The Evil Energy Rain is blocked by the barrier, but the Holy Light Barrier has no ability to defend against physical attacks, and the large number of stone fragments that have been smashed are still quite lethal, causing some confusion to the team.
The vanguard didn't bother with this, their position was at the rear, and after Gordon unfolded the barrier, only a few small stones smashed over.
The mages were at the center of the attack, but in addition to the golden barrier that was held up by Tairosus himself and emitted the brightest light in the audience, there was also a purple shield, the Violet Barrier, which blocked the dense rubble, and the largest meteorite, or hellfire, was naturally dealt with.
Just as the hellfire was about to crash into the violet barrier, a figure with a blinding golden light leaped out of the crowd, with a pair of huge light wings on its back, holding a three-meter-wide siege shield in both hands, and crashed into the falling hellfire from the side like a cannonball.
With a loud bang, the siege shield was torn apart, and the violent impact also changed the direction of the hellfire's fall, and with a thud, it fell obliquely into the water, evaporating a large amount of white vapor, Angela took the opportunity to release a frozen gas, completely freezing the demon at the bottom of the lake.
And the figure glided some distance with the light wings behind it, and then also crashed into the crowd.
Seeing that the Dreadlord's magic had completely failed, Bethires hurriedly ordered the undead who were about to move underwater and the swarm of insects on the island to retreat, and now it felt that the enemy this time was not so easy to deal with, and it couldn't help but be a little angry.
It originally thought that the water archmage just wanted to cast a spell again to disperse the undead underwater, so it ordered the undead to shrink into a dense formation, but it didn't expect that it was frost magic, if the ice bank was formed, the large group of undead who moved slowly underwater and didn't have time to disperse would be sealed in the ice, but now it seems that it is powerless to stop it.
Fortunately, the ice road, which is only ten meters wide, is not so easy to walk, and it still occupies an advantageous location.
The soldiers who were unfortunately hit by the rubble were only slightly injured, and were quickly healed by the Holy Light Healing of the Paladins and the Priest, and the only seriously injured person was the warrior who collided with the Hellfire in the air, and several healing priests rushed over after he landed.
Without interference, Angela increased her mana output, and the magic circle under her feet expanded the water elemental energy she could mobilize several times, and the spiral blue air column continued to extend forward, all the way to the island in the middle of the lake.
The column of air did not stop there, and I saw a 90-degree turn of the column of air soaring into the sky, reaching the sky, like a thin blue tower towering on the island.
Snow began to fall on the island in the middle of the lake, and large swarms of insects were directly frozen to death, and more flew away in all directions, and the screams of the demons continued to sound, but not many bugs turned back, and now their instincts overcame the orders of the demon master.
On the surface of the lake, the white corridor that reaches the center of the lake has also been completed, and in the second half of the ice embankment, countless underwater undead soldiers were directly frozen into the ice, and the water surface on both sides of the ice bank also formed a thick layer of ice, temporarily sealing all the undead army underwater.
Amid the cheers of the whole army, Angela's tired face showed a smile of relief: "I didn't expect that there was an unexpected joy, and the undead under the water were actually crowded together." ”
Duane nodded, bowed to her slightly, and disappeared with two of his men in a burst of green light, his mana was almost exhausted, and his goal had been achieved, he would not stay in the dangerous battlefield any longer, and teleported back to the monastery early, he had also persuaded Angela to go back with him, but it was obvious that he failed.
The lives of mages are very precious, and I don't know when a battlefield law has appeared: mages on the battlefield have the right to decide for themselves. But Angela is clearly not a character to retreat, and she wants to wait until the moment of victory or defeat.
The miracle created by the mages shocked everyone inexplicably, and Unas was also dumbfounded, and a joke circulating in the game suddenly popped up in his mind - "If the mage doesn't cut it, the monster will die!" ”